City of Ottawa to celebrate World Hijab Day on 25th
This Thursday, February 25, 2016, the city of Ottawa will be holding a public event celebrating the hijab, to show solidarity with Muslim women and diffuse Islamophobia. The City for […]
The Pentagon Releases Plan To Close Guantanamo, Despite Republican Opposition
Source: Huffington Post By Jessica Schulberg; Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a long-anticipated plan outlining the steps the Obama administration will take to close […]
Pakistan PM promises tougher stance on ‘honour’ killings
theguardian: by Jon Boone — Call for perpetrators to be ‘punished very severely’ puts Nawaz Sharif on collision course with religious conservatives Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, makes a speech condemning ‘honour’ killings at an Islamabad screening of A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness. Photograph: AFP/Getty Laws […]
Thirteen Years Later, GOP Voters Reject Iraq War and Interventionism
Source: Huffington Post It is official. The voters in the Republican party believe that the war in Iraq was wrong, based on lies, and led to the birth of ISIS. […]
Buddhism and the Messiness of Everyday Thinking
Source: Huffington Post By Steven Schwartzberg Ph.D. clinical psychologist, dharma student, intentional nomad I am sitting in the Forest Refuge dining hall eating my breakfast oatmeal. I’m 4 weeks into […]
Richard Dawkins Examines Afterlife, But, Fails to Answer the Basic Issue of Consolation
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Belief in life after death is not only restoring order in our present life, by belief in […]
Letter from Gaza: The Human Toll of the Blockade
Field Notes FEBRUARY 19, 2016 | STRATFOR.COM By Jasmin Mahmoud There are no perfect measures of the toll the Gaza blockade is taking on the 1.9 million residents locked inside, but those that give a glimpse tend to be pretty macabre. The number of suicide attempts handled by Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, […]
The Integration Puzzle: What a Million Refugees Mean for Everyday Life
By SPIEGEL Staff DER SPIEGEL The New Germany: Within only 12 months, over 1 million people moved to Germany. How will they integrate? More than a million refugees are now living in Germany. The next task is to integrate them. SPIEGEL spoke with dozens of experts and people working in […]
Switzerland: Anti-immigrant climate sparks citizenship rush
Photo: Christophe G Published: 23 Feb 2016 More and more foreigners in Switzerland are seeking Swiss citizenship according to official figures, reversing a downward trend over the previous 10 years. Figures from the Swiss immigration office show that the number of naturalizations rose by around 20 percent in 2015, with […]
SWITZERLAND: Thousands demand headscarf ban in Valais
SCHOOL DRESSCODE FEB 22, 2016 – 20:54 Two young women studying in Zurich (Keystone) With an eye on Muslim hijab, Swiss People’s Party members in canton Valais have collected more than 4,000 signatures calling for a ban on headgear in public schools – despite a recent federal court decision rejecting […]
Fighting terrorism in the cyberspace
SAAD AL-DOSARI Published — Tuesday 23 February 2016 As the world governments and security agencies are stepping up their efforts to fight online terrorism, terrorist groups are actively changing and upgrading their tactics. Social media platforms have become their open playgrounds they use to recruit fighters, to communicate between cells, […]
Iraq tribesmen battle Daesh inside Fallujah for second day
By AFP – Feb 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of Iraqi security forces are deployed at the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Iraqi tribesmen battled Daesh militants inside their Fallujah stronghold for a second day Saturday, a significant challenge to long-standing extremist control […]
JORDAN: Population grew by 87% over a decade — census
By Omar Obeidat – Feb 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour speaks at a ceremony in Amman on Monday to announce the preliminary findings of the 2015 population census (Petra photo) AMMAN — Jordan’s population increased by nearly 87 per cent over a decade, with the number […]
Only peace will help Syrians
Feb 22,2016 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura made a surprise visit to Damascus last week for urgent talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem, in a bid to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by the Syrian army. Damascus agreed, or […]
Syria civil war: The untold story of the siege of two small Shia villages – and how the world turned a blind eye
Villages that remained loyal to the Syrian regime have paid a steep price Robert Fisk Nubl, Northern Syria @indyvoices 55 comments This is the untold story of the three-and-a-half-year siege of two small Shia Muslim villages in northern Syria. Although their recapture by the Syrian army – and by Iranian Revolutionary Guards […]
When Someone Tells You Torture Is Justified, Send Them This
Torture Is a Crime Source: Huffington Post By Curt Goering; Executive Director, The Center for Victims of Torture The subject of U.S. policies on torture is back in the news again. With […]
Religion and Secular Liberalism Should Enrich Each Other in a Modern Democracy
Source: Huffington Post By Muhammad Abdul Bari: Educationalist, community activist, author and parenting consultant Ignorance of others in a pluralist democracy is a big enemy. In recent decades the lack of […]
India: Jat agitation: Rail, road traffic to Rajasthan also hit, schools closed in Delhi
Anuja Jaiswal, Times of India Notwithstanding the call for withdrawal of Jat reservation agitation in Haryana, traffic, both rail and bus, remained affected from UP for the second consecutive day, as nearly 300 trains, passing through Western UP, and hundreds of buses were cancelled, stranding thousands of passengers. Services to […]
Nicaragua priest who defied Vatican to champion literacy dies aged 82
Source: BBC Fernando Cardenal, a Nicaraguan priest who defied Vatican orders to leave the revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, has died aged 82. Father Cardenal was one of several […]
Defense Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan: A Sikh soldier’s climb to the Canadian Cabinet
Source: Los Angeles Times Three months ago, most Canadians had never heard of Harjit Singh Sajjan. But after newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped him to be defense minister […]